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metropolitan

 adjective
     
Related topics: Nationality and Race
met‧ro‧pol‧i‧tan [only before noun]
1 relating or belonging to a very large city:
a metropolitan area of South Australia
2 technicalSAN relating to France, rather than its colonies:
metropolitan France
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